CWG (Conficker Working Group) recently published a report named "Lessons Learned" according to which, the main failure in fighting Conficker has been the inability to nab a single person or gang of cyber-criminals who operated the virus. Securecomputing.net.au reported this on January 28, 2011.

The Petoskey, Michigan, US-located Michigan State Police Petoskey Post has warned that one fresh fake e-mail and phone campaign is going on inside Northern Michigan that's aiming to attack senior residents. Petoskeynews.com reported this on January 26, 2011.

The US Embassies' consular sections in Accra (Ghana), Bahrain, Pakistan and Bangladesh have issued an alert that a new fake lottery e-mail campaign is currently circulating aiming to attack citizens. The gulf-daily-news.com reported this on January 27, 2011.

Facebook the internationally reputed website for social networking is once again being targeted with a malevolent scam wherein the website's application named "My Total Facebook Views" is getting exploited, according to the tmesofindia.indiatimes.com published on January 24, 2011.